UKRAINE

NASA's move is aimed at ending U.S. dependence on Russia to fly crews to the International Space Station by 2017.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Vitaliy Zhuravskiy was dragged and thrown into the trash right outside the Ukrainian Parliament.

Lawmakers in Ukraine also signed an agreement that promises deeper economic and political ties with the European Union.

Rapid Trident consists of troops from 15 nations, four of which are non-NATO former Soviet states.

France said it was holding off on selling Russia a warship, but then allowed 200 Russian sailors to start sea trials aboard it.

The EU and the U.S. imposed late last week a fresh set of sanctions against Moscow for its policy on Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops beat back pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk, as Russian nationalists send aid to separatist-controlled Luhansk.

“There is no contract sanctity,” a U.S. official said. Accordingly, companies will have 14 days to wind down activities.

The U.S. Federal Reserve could signal the timing of its first interest-rate increase in more than eight years Wednesday.

The company has been reeling from the loss of two aircraft in separate incidents in 2014, which resulted in hundreds of deaths.

Ukrainian Azov battalion fighters depicted on ZDF TV wearing uniforms with swastikas and Nazi runic symbols.

Ukrainian Azov battalion fighters depicted on ZDF TV wearing uniforms with swastikas and Nazi runic symbols.

Newspaper mogul Rupert Murdoch says Scotland is "alive" with debate on the independence issue.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk made the comment after Europe decided to implement new sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.

Despite denials that Russian troops are in Ukraine, families with children in the Russian military are coping with 'mysterious' deaths.

Ten years ago, 170,000 people in the Russian Federation had human immunodeficiency virus. The estimated number now is 1.2 million.

You can't get to the French Riviera if your private jet won't take off.

The European Union has held out an olive branch, however, by saying it could lift some or even all of the sanctions within weeks.

Russia is looking to strengthen relations, as well as find new customers for its natural resources, in Asia, as relations sour with the West.

Warsaw said the volume of gas from Russia dropped by 45 percent, though Russia's Gazprom denied it had cut supplies.

Cooperation between the U.S. and Russia on space projects has been jeopardized over the latter's role in the conflict in eastern Ukraine.